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BOB BROWN: The American Flag

All my life, I’ve loved the American flag. I was taught there is something special about our flag, that it is never trampled upon in war or peace, and...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: There Is No Need For A U.S. Ground War In Venezuela

The easiest way to overthrow Nicolás Maduro, the narco-terrorist dictator of Venezuela, is to finance an insurgency....

SCOTT DREYER: Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation

Americans celebrate Thanksgiving today, and along with Canadians in October, are the only people on...

DAWN CUSTALOW: Pocahontas Reframed and Thanksgiving

I just returned from the 9th annual Pocahontas Reframed film festival 2025 in Richmond, VA,...

SCOTT DREYER: “Forgive Me When I Whine”

This poem, of unclear authorship, reportedly comes from the dark Great Depression days of the...

Every Drought Ends with a Good Rain

by Fred First This selection is from Slow Road Home, written in August 2002, a lament during one of the worst droughts in living...

When Jokes Are In The Genes

by Mary Jo Shannon A study of the Shannon genome would reveal, I suspect, that the Y chromosome contains a specific gene for playing practical...

Harry Burn Was A Good Boy

by Mike Keeler He was elected to the Tennessee legislature in 1918 at the age of 22, making him its youngest member.  But in...

Recipe of the Week: Harry Potter Treacle Tart

by Leigh Sackett My son just had a Harry Potter birthday party and since I was a fan of the books long before he...

Cathedral of the Spirit By George Anderson

My wife and I had an opportunity to go to Greece to enjoy a vacation with my daughter, Paige, who lives in Eastern...

“We Have Met the Enemy and They Is Us”

by Hayden Hollingsworth Walt Kelly, on the first Earth Day in 1971, paraphrased Commander Oliver Perry’s message to General William Henry Harrison after the...